I love Esperanto

I reluctantly decided to learn Esperanto to get a "leg up" on the Spanish class I am taking in school next year, and I am loving it! The simplicity of it is astounding and it is very fun to learn. Why did you start Esperanto?

I first heard about it as a kid but there weren't any resources for learning it in my town that a seven-year-old would think of. (For whatever reason I never thought to check out the 499 section of the library where the books on "Languages - Other", including Esperanto, are kept.) About a decade later my interest was re-sparked when I found an Esperanto phrase book for 50 cents at a university bookstore, and off I went. Why Esperanto though? I don't know. Maybe the idea of a constructed language just appealed to me.